Low, Medium, High, and Full population servers

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Does anyone know the exact figures in terms of population as to what defines a server, (or connected servers) size?

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Don’t Know, only thing i know is if you try to get on a full population server you’ll be waiting a long time.

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I have no idea. The population of the game itself is low atm. I think blizzard changes it based on that.

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Only time I’ve seen that is on an expansion launch. Outside of the SL launch I’ve never seen a queue on Stormrage or Area 52

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My understanding is that it’s not actually to do with anything you’d think but rather (and this is still a guess)

percentage status
top 20% full
next 20% High
mid 20 Medium
next 20% Low
Bottom 20% new players

So full doesn’t mean “full” it means “this server is in the top 20% of servers by population”

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I don’t think exact numbers are available to the public. If memory serves (which may be stretching things a bit), ‘they’ were saying when Classic came out that a Classic medium server had the population of a full server in Vanilla. The number 5k for a full Vanilla server comes to mind but I can’t swear to it.

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Donkey Kong

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What is this based on?
I’m hesitant to make generalization here, since full realms are continuously having similar log in issues on launch.

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I’d be shocked if fenris had more than 1k active people on it. It’s just so quiet.

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Lol I think it stands for Don’t Know, but I DK 4 sure.

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He’s the leader of the bunch

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They said as much when they did the last round of connections. Because people had noticed that “full” servers will still sharding with other servers even though they shouldn’t in theory. They just didn’t give the actual criteria for each category, that is supposition.

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That’s very interesting.

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ops,sorry ,thanks for the correction. :pensive: